Event/ Événement: September 10, 2011

The Lady Cheese Shop with Miriam Simun at Kafein, Montreal, Quebec

September 10, 2011

see also: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lethe-Sensorium/269110839770129

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The Lady Cheese Shop is a pop up shop that invites visitors inside to sample cheese made from human milk. Contained within the space is documentation (graphics, medical reports, email exchanges and audio interviews) depicting the process of making this human body product. Three safe and delicious human cheeses will be available (made from the milk of three different women), accented with food pairings inspired by the cultural and microbial terroir of each cheese. Over cheese and wine participants are invited to consider and discuss the implications of this immodest proposal. This project raises questions about the ways in which biotechnology transforms the possibilities of the human body as a site of production and commodification, through a radical reframing of the possibilities of urban food production. Amidst a very real crisis in our food systems, the use of hyper-local reproductive human excess offers a real possibility to 'give life,' now in the form of food. By inviting participants to taste human cheese, Simun asks us to consider the role of embodied and emotional knowledge alongside the rational senses in shaping our changing norms amidst technological progress.

le/the Sensorium is pleased to present The Lady Cheese Shop as its inaugural event at 6pm, Saturday, September 10th at Kafein: 1429 Bishop Street, Montreal. The event will be preceded by an artist talk at 4pm, Friday, September 9th at Concordia’s Greenhouse, 1455 de Maisonneuve West. To get to the Greenhouse, go to the 12th floor and follow the signs to stairwell #1285.